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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEVI IV. BUXTON, OF NASHUA, NEIV HAMPSHIRE, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSLF AND MARK STARRETT, OF SAME PLAGE.

BED-BOTTOM.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 28,233, dated May 8, 1860.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Lnvr W. BUXTON, of Nashua, in the county of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire, have invented an Improved Bed-Bottom, of which the following is a full, clear, and eXact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a perspective View of my improved bed bottom; Fig. 2, detail to be referred to hereafter.

The object of my present invention is to obtain a spring bed bottom which may be kept distended and in position while on the bedstead, and which may, when removed from the bedstead, be folded up into a more convenient forni for transpormtion: and my invention consists ina bedbottoin made of an upper and a lower series of slats with spiral springs interposed between them, the lower series being held in place and kept at a proper distance apart by a cross rail at each end, into suitable mortises in which the ends of the slats enter; these cross rails being made removable for the convenience of folding up the bedbotto1n.

That others skilled in the art may understand and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the manner in which I have carried out the same.

In the said drawings, A are the lower slats; B, the upper slats; C, spiral springs interposed between each upper and lower slat and secured to them.

The two slats A which are the outside ones of the series, have attached to their outer edges at each end a. block a, to the top of which is secured an elastic band Z), which passes through and is secured to the end of each of the upper slats B. A stout rail D shown detached in Fig. 2 is furnished with mortises o in each of which tits the end of one of the slats A, when the bedbottom is distended (as in Fig. l.) and in the form which it occupies when placed on the bedstead.

When it is required to remove or transport the bedbottom, it is only necessary to slip the rail D at each end of it off from the ends of the slats A, when the bedbottoni may be rolled up into a convenient form for carrying, the rails D being placed inside of the bundle, and the heavier slats A being on the outside where they protect the lighter slats B and the springs from injury,

IVhat I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The removable rail D operating substantially as described, for the purpose specified.

LEVI W. BUXTON.

Witnesses:

ROBERT MOORE, FRANK F. DOWNS. 

